Ciara Regan presents an update on World Breastfeeding Week 2017. Her 2016 World Breastfeeding Week report is re-posted below as, unfortunately, the facts haven’t changed. Quick link to 2017 update (below) The majority of people are well aware of the incredible health benefits of breastfeeding for a baby. I consider
A quick guide to the Sustainable Development Goals…in 5 minutes
Photo credit © XXXXXXX Continuing debates on global inequality have developed a new edge and immediacy as a result of the current financial and economic crises affecting the West and, in particular the Eurozone with the accompanying ‘austerity’ measures they have generated. The rise of the ‘Occupy’ movements in 2011 challenged
“‘Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognises before it can speak. But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that
What’s the buying power of a dollar-a-day really worth? Overall winner of the 2018 Trinity College Dublin and developmenteducation.ie Development Issues series, Michael Morigi, explores the question of a dollar’s worth through Kendrick Lamar’s music, overseas aid statistics and from his life in the US. Track eleven on American rapper
Since the start of September, staff at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Irish Aid, Ireland’s overseas aid development programme, have been working overtime. Public events in Cork, Galway, Sligo, Limerick and Dublin, plus a call for written submissions, have occupied the collective ears of Irish Aid in
Mobile phones aren’t just useful as alarm clocks or for making calls, updating your social status and sending messages. Dorothy Jacob from international development NGO Self Help Africa reflects on how farmers in Malawi, Kenya and Uganda are using innovation and technology to lead the fight against hunger. Our lives
In the lead up to World Food Day on October 16, Tony Daly presents 14 videos related to food, covering food waste, food production, energy and solution-based ideas that go against the grain. This blog forms part of the #ZeroHunger series, brought to you by the Professional Development Support Service
Today is World Food Day and we are delighted to launch a new pocket-booklet, 10 Myths About World Hunger as part of a new series that looks to sort facts from fiction on key global development, human rights and justice issues. Check out the quick guide to lesson plan ideas
Nelson Mandela was born a century ago on July 18th, 1918. You are all familiar enough with his life story not to require any re-telling here. Of all world leaders of my generation, he stood head and shoulders above all others; his was the greatest impact; he was the most
**Update: check out the Human Rights Day 2020 live-blog. For starters, check out Amnesty International Ireland’s human rights education resources and the international HRE resources. There are resources for both primary and post-primary schools, for youth and for adult education contexts. They feature resources by theme (the death penalty, action
The results are in from the most accessed resources of 2018 in the resources library, and the findings cover teaching packs, learning resources, videos and more
On the 14th of March 2016, Dublin-based artist/activist Will St Ledger installed a fake, un-exploded missile on South King Street in Dublin to mark the fifth anniversary of the Syrian crisis.
The second reflection in the study visits and immersions programmes guide comes from Varja Lipovsek of East African NGO Twaweza (meaning ‘we can make it happen’ in Swahili) which works on enabling children to learn, citizens to exercise agency and governments to be more open and responsive in Tanzania, Kenya
What can one person do about tackling food waste, food injustice and world hunger? Toni Pyke checks out suggestions from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and environmental news website EcoWatch.
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In the third part of the series John Dornan and Suzanne Bunniss review faith groups and action over many years on environmental issues such as climate change, sustainability and our collective responsibilities to each other on a shared planet
Covid-19 highlights the importance of our Global Citizenship and Development Education. The second in a 3-part series, Colm Regan introduces 3 teaching strategies for adapting and exploring with learners
A round-up of ideas, trends and entry points for anyone interested in producing Development Education / global citizenship education resources in adult and community education contexts
In 2017, a group of students from Presentation College, Bray led a design experiment: to see what a school might look like if the meaning and ambition of the globally agreed Sustainable Development Goals were realised in their school.
On the other side of the pandemic, we must strengthen and build strong working-class movements to challenge imperialism and neocolonialism
Highlighting the work of physiotherapists who live and work in the Global South – a photo exhibition by Emma McCarthy
To open a new space for positive community interactions in a creative way we invited the public to sit and try locally-foraged tea.
How to take action on gender equality from the Irish Girl Guides movement – a girl guide’s perspective by Amy McAuley
A public project that invited the public to consider how a cocoon becomes a butterfly, creating art that expressed their hopes for the future of the world as we emerge from isolation under a global pandemic
A summary for teachers and educators with key ideas, debates and activities relating to the chocolate industry, ethical food production such as Fairtrade and the ongoing realities of child labour in the cocoa trade, by Colm Regan
Dora-Olivia Vicol explores the findings from recent research about health misinformation and Covid-19 by fact-checkers Africa Check, Full Fact and Chequeado
Podcasts The Irish Global Solidarity in 100 Objects podcast series showcases a selection of interviews and talks featuring educators, activists and campaigners based on the stories behind the 100 objects featured in the exhibition. Produced by developmenteducation.ie and hosted by Ciara Regan. Explore the objects from the exhibition, now online.
Gina Dorso explores food security in Puerto Rico, as a U.S. territory, from the perspective of an Irish American
Gina Dorso explores the main outcomes of Progressive International’s Summit for Vaccine Internationalism and what can be done
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